4790K & 4690K "Devil's Canyon" Overclocking Thread

Hey guys, been a very long time since I had some new gear to play with. 4790K is on preorder, hoping to get it soon! But we really need a thread on the lovely XS that I've been a member on for over a decade now. Seems like just yesterday I signed up!

I actually have a 4770k right now, but it's a bad clocker so hoping the 4790K will make me excited to OC again!

Anyways, lets have a nice OC discussion on the retail chips as they start rolling into XS users rigs!

Comments, advice, concerns, hints. Let's see what we can do with the "Canyon".

System specs will be as follows....

Asus Maximus Hero VI Z87 (bios updated for Devils Canyon)
16Gb Kingston Beast 2400Mhz RAM
Custom watercooling with Apogee HD waterblock
Corsair HX850 PSU
2x Gigabyte GTX 670 SLI

and of course a 4790K that I will not be a afraid to pump volts through, I have plenty of backup rigs if I blow this up!

:welcome::up:

if you not afraid to pump volts then it will be fun. post your out come.....good luck

I just hope retail canyons gives a nice turnaround... goodluck!

If you guys are running a 4770K and want to upgrade, I say sell it now on ebay! Mine sold for $270 so the upgrade to a 4790K is $69 in my case.

4790K delidded...:

http://itsoapbox.com/images/hw-4790k-delid-small.png

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthrea...8606730&page=11

Thank you for the pic. Kind of hard to tell if the TIM is any better.

Anyone in XS get a 4790K yet? I'm still waiting on TigerDirect. I'm following overclock.net's thread, but much prefer Xtremesystems standards of overclocking!

here my first tests :
4970K L418C133
Gigabyte z97 oc force
Corsair H110

http://www.pictureshack.us/thumbs/3537_4_5ghz.jpg

http://www.pictureshack.us/thumbs/66520_4_8ghz.jpg

Mine has shipped from Tigerdirect as of today.

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Originally Posted by splmann

here my first tests :
4970K L418C133
Gigabyte z97 oc force
Corsair H110

http://www.pictureshack.us/thumbs/3537_4_5ghz.jpg

http://www.pictureshack.us/thumbs/66520_4_8ghz.jpg

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Looking really good so far!

what can do with 4400+ cache ?:) The CPU clcoks will be the same ,-)?

Picked up a retail 4790K yesterday, seems to be bunny extraction. Not stable at 4.6GHz even with 1.3v. And the batch number is odd, L331C501. I'd have thought all Devil's Canyon chips would have a batch indicating 2014 manufacture.

http://www.diskusjon.no/uploads/mont...1403700629.png

quick test with D107 chip.. Hyper 212 cooler.

More than not 24/7 stable but at least it runs for me to see what core voltage it needs for 4.5 which is where I would run it 24/7. Boots at 1.1v but have had it hang post a few times so bumped to 1.15 & it’s been fine just messing about in windows & very light benches. Don’t know what the cache voltage is as its on auto atm & still on the box cooler!

I will pop this in my Asrock z87 OCF sometime & see if it can make 5G 1:1 at reasonable voltages

i7 4790K L418C134

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...0KL418C134.png

DPA: its awesome chip! What can do it with 1.35V vcore at CPU?

4900mhz - 2800mhz mem - Watercooling

L418c134

http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/p...B49004790k.png

Managed to run @ 1.41v

Had a play in the Z87 OCF & not impressed... sure its ok but I got a better 4770K so will find a home for this one & keep looking.

Core is ok 1.35v, IMC V Good stock v, Cache 1.375 poor/average compared to 4770K's.

VDIMM 1.65, IOA & IOD auto.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...0K5G482800.png

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Originally Posted by C-N

Had a play in the Z87 OCF & not impressed... sure its ok but I got a better 4770K so will find a home for this one & keep looking.

Core is ok 1.35v, IMC V Good stock v, Cache 1.375 poor/average compared to 4770K's.

VDIMM 1.65, IOA & IOD auto.

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No need to up VDIMM at all? That's an awesome IMC.

C-N... set the memory back to 2666Mhz and set tWR to 5 then rerun AIDA64

C-N is yours a 2013 or 2014 batch?

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Originally Posted by Peen

C-N is yours a 2013 or 2014 batch?

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Look above....L418C134 (2014)

My L419B540 coming tmr....

Oh yeah it's in his sig I would have never noticed :lol2:

I can boot into windows XP @ 6Ghz 4c8t with 1.6v, my cold bug is at -140c so far

Excellent memory controller, I am happy with this chip so far.

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Originally Posted by FUGGER

I can boot into windows XP @ 6Ghz 4c8t with 1.6v, my cold bug is at -140c so far

Excellent memory controller, I am happy with this chip so far.

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Is that an ES chip?